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As of December 14, 2021, 39 cities in Texas had outlawed abortion within their city boundaries and declared themselves "sanctuary cities for the unborn." [206] [better source needed] The first city to do so was the city of Waskom, Texas, which enacted its local abortion ban on June 13, 2019. [207]
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
The Texas Legislature banned abortion care as early as five weeks into pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the case that protected a ...
This effectively banned abortion in the state, which used to allow abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. ... The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 ...
The neonatal mortality rate – or the death rates of babies younger than 28 days – also increased in Texas by 5.8% but decreased in the rest of the US, the study found.
For 2020, the Guttmacher Institute reported 930,160 abortions, an abortion rate of 14.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, and 20.6 abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in abortion or live birth. [6] Graph of U.S. abortion rates from 1973 to 2020, as reported by the Guttmacher Institute [8] [1] [8] [1] [6] [8] [1] [6]
Concerns have been raised over preventable deaths due to the Georgia abortion ban. A Georgia maternal mortality review committee concluded in 2024 that the deaths of two pregnant mothers were preventable and that they were unable to receive the appropriate health care due to the state's abortion ban. [12] Abortions after the fifth or sixth week ...
Earlier research – spurred by a CNN investigative report - found that infant mortality spiked in Texas after a 6-week abortion ban took effect in 2021, and experts say the new data suggests that ...